Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #11

[otto]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1724942399431217457

 

[Simply Southern]

9/11 son slams TikTokers sharing Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

Brett Eagleson, who was just 15 when his father died during the 9/11 terrorist attack, says those sharing the Al-Qaeda leader's letter need to be 'reeducated' saying the posts are 'hard to believe'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The son of a man who died in the 9/11 attacks said it is 'hard to watch' TikTok users fawning over Osama Bin Laden's letter to America as he called for Americans to be 'reeducated.'
The 37-year-old has become the latest high-profile figure to condemn online users re-sharing the Al Qaeda leader's letter, which he used to
justify the September 11 attack.

In the letter, which was first published in 2002, bin Laden says one of the reasons 9/11 was carried out was because of the U.S.'s support for Israel - as he spewed anti-American, anti-Semitic and homophobic viewpoints

 

[otto]

They are different ethnicities etc, but they all speak English like a North American, and they sometimes say the exact same thing as each other, using similar language.

It seems like quite the propaganda assault ... glorifying Osama bin Laden. Are we dealing with 2020 hippy thinking that everyone is good and their truth should be respected, nevermind authentic truth?

 

[otto]

9/11 son slams TikTokers sharing Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

Brett Eagleson, who was just 15 when his father died during the 9/11 terrorist attack, says those sharing the Al-Qaeda leader's letter need to be 'reeducated' saying the posts are 'hard to believe'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The son of a man who died in the 9/11 attacks said it is 'hard to watch' TikTok users fawning over Osama Bin Laden's letter to America as he called for Americans to be 'reeducated.'
The 37-year-old has become the latest high-profile figure to condemn online users re-sharing the Al Qaeda leader's letter, which he used to
justify the September 11 attack.

In the letter, which was first published in 2002, bin Laden says one of the reasons 9/11 was carried out was because of the U.S.'s support for Israel - as he spewed anti-American, anti-Semitic and homophobic viewpoints

It seems like short-term attention span ignorance. I wonder whether the protesters shouting pro-Gaza slogans today are the same people who shouted Black Lives Matter a few months ago. Are the protesters simply bored, too lazy to read, restless, and looking for excitement - so off they march to shout about something and get agitated?

I doubt that protesters realize that they are following someone like the hamas pied piper, who is against everything that woke stands for. They hear "Go Gaza!" and they stop thinking.

 

[Simply Southern]

IDF troops raid terror sites in Gaza, find heavy rockets and kill gunmen​

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By EMANUEL FABIAN Today, 9:00 am 3

Israeli soldiers inspect Iran-made Badr-3 rockets at an Islamic Jihad outpost in northern Gaza on November 17, 2023 (IThe Israel Defense Forces says operations in the Gaza Strip continued overnight, with fighter jets targeting Hamas sites and troops battling Hamas gunmen.
The IDF says it carried out airstrikes against “many” Hamas sites, including weapons storage facilities, as well as against terror operatives.


Meanwhile, troops of the Bislamach Brigade and the elite combat engineering Yahalom unit raided an Islamic Jihad outpost in northern Gaza, locating Iran-made Badr-3 rockets, drones, and other weapons.

The Badr-3 is claimed to have a range of 160 kilometers and a 250-kilogram explosive warhead. Some of the rockets were brought to Israel for research purposes. The Islamic Jihad outpost was later destroyed.

Troops of the Givati Infantry Brigade meanwhile battled Hamas operatives holed up in a school, the IDF says. Several gunmen were killed in the fighting, and the troops later recovered weaponry.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-17-2023/

 

[Simply Southern]

The US needs to be concerned, very concerned !!! Moo

Pro-Palestine group shared a map that pinpointed locations in NYC

A pro-Palestine group has called for 'direct action' to 'globalize intifada' as they shared a map of well-known New York City landmarks on Instagram.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A pro-Palestine group has called for 'direct action' to 'globalize intifada' as they shared a map of well-known New York City landmarks on Instagram.
The graphic specified famous buildings and companies in the Big Apple that have ties to Israel or are media companies.
The page that posted the map goes by the name Within Our Lifetime and has described itself as a Palestinian-led community organization that's said, 'We will free Palestine.'

'Each of the locations on this map reflects the location of an office of an enemy of both the Palestinian people and colonized people all over the world, the group stated, according to the New York Post. 'Today and beyond, these locations will be sites for popular mobilization in defense of our people,' the post read.
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A City Hall spokesman told The New York Post: 'But to be clear, threatening businesses and organizations and referring to them as the "enemy" is exactly the kind of hateful rhetoric that seeks to divide New Yorkers, but it won't work, because we are better than that.'

The map pinpointed notable targets around the city, such as Grand Central Station. DailyMail.com has decided to blur the map.
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The map itself was titled 'From Palestine to NYC - Globalize the Intifada.' The term intifada relates directly to the Palestine uprising against Israel when they occupied the West Bank of the Gaza Strip in 1987.

The group also posted another map to its social media page on Wednesday that remains on its Instagram page.

This map was titled 'Funding Colonization: Tax Exempt Zionist "Charities" Funding Settler Organizations in Palestine'. It went on to list and pinpoint specific Israel locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Staten Island, Long Island and New Jersey.

 

[Simply Southern]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/department-of-education-antisemitism-islamophobia-investigations/index.html

Exclusive: Department of Education opens seven school investigations over alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia​

By Rene Marsh and Katie Lobosco, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 8:35 PM EST, Thu November 16, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks with students during a visit to Towson University to discuss antisemitism on college campuses on November 2, 2023.
Julia Nikhinson/AP

WashingtonCNN —
The Department of Education has launched investigations into seven schools after receiving complaints about alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia, an administration official tells CNN.
The investigations include five antisemitism cases and two Islamophobia cases, the official said.
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The schools were informed about the investigations within the last 24 hours. They include one K-12 school, the Maize Unified School District in Kansas, and six colleges: Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, Cornell University in New York, Columbia University in New York, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, and the University of Pennsylvania.

A list of K-12 schools and colleges under investigation for possible discrimination based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics will be posted on the Department of Education’s website and will be updated weekly.

At the conclusion of the investigations, the Department of Education will make recommendations to the schools. The schools risk losing federal funding if they don’t comply, the administration official said.

 

[Simply Southern]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/business/antisemitism-college-israel-nir-barkat/index.html

Top Israeli official has a warning for US universities​

Nir Barkat, Israel’s minister of economy and industry, is warning American universities to crack down on antisemitism.

“Schools that prioritize taking money instead of doing what’s right and doing good are going to have a serious problem,” Barkat told CNN on Thursday.
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“You’re going to see many funders of Ivy League and other universities shy away from that behavior,” he said.

Barkat argued that schools that failed to fight antisemitism are “going to be paying a heavy price for that.”

 

[Simply Southern]

NYC Pro-Palestinian rally: Thousands flood Midtown streets; sit-in staged at New York Times HQ

Thousands gathered Thursday evening in Midtown Manhattan, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

www.fox5ny.com

Thousands of Pro-Palestinian demonstrators flooded the streets across Manhattan on Thursday to protest Israel's war in Gaza, with some occupying the lobby of The New York Times to demand an immediate cease-fire.

On Friday, another large-scale pro-Palestinian rally and march is expected.
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Schools Chancellor David Banks had warned teachers about violating Education Department rules on political speech, according to Chalkbeat New York.

 

[Vern]

That may be, but my point was whether the hospital acknowledged receiving the items or not. IDF is saying "we brought stuff", and al-Shifa is saying," no they didn't". Which is it?

The videos of the IDF troops carrying it into the hospital have been posted in here numerous times. At least one incubator, can be seen in the short clip, one stretcher and many boxes of medical supplies. Surely you didn't miss it?

 

[Simply Southern]

In first, Israel says it has agreed to allow 2 fuel trucks a day into Gaza​

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Today, 1:46 pm 0

A truck carrying fuel crosses into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Israel has agreed to allow two fuel trucks a day into Gaza for UN needs, as well as those of water and sewer systems, an Israeli official says.
The war cabinet made the decision based on the recommendation of the IDF and Shin Bet and at the request of US officials.
The action is intended “to enable the minimal maintenance necessary for water, sewer and sanitary systems to prevent pandemics that could spread to the entire area, hurting residents of the Strip as well as our own forces and potentially spreading into Israel as well.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-17-2023/

 

[Vern]

Is it possible that he is traumatized by the slaughter of 1200 civilians on October 7? Perhaps he needs a rest to process what happened.

Trauma is trauma and the brain is a parking lot, when however many parking spaces one has in there are full - they are full. It's different for everyone, but I still believe in holding individuals accountable for their actions and words.

Advocating genocide can never be acceptable. On either side.

Ergo, just as I have zero sympathy for this doctor (who may very well have had a relative massacred on 7 October for all I know about him), I have zero sympathy for those advocating for genocide of the Jewish peoples with their "from the river to the sea" chants. Just as the Uni Prof who supported and advocated those chants is suspended (and some students too), I hope every laywer, doctor, teacher and other 'professenional' who did/does same suffers same ... and if some of them are deemed 'never fit to work in their environment again' - so should none of them be deemed so IMO.

Advocating genocide is advocating genocide.

 

[Brightchaser47]

WORLD MUST CONVINCE ISRAEL TO LET FUEL INTO GAZA, TELECOM CHIEF SAYS​

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The general manager of Palestine Telecommunications Company, Paltel, said he has urged international bodies to persuade Israel to allow fuel to enter Gaza in order to restore phone and internet to the besieged enclave.

“We asked all international bodies to intervene with Israel in order to allow the entry of fuel,” Abdulmajeed Melhem told The Associated Press.

Earlier Thursday, Paltel announced that all communication services — landlines, mobile phones and internet connections — were down due to a lack of fuel.

“Since the outbreak of the war, there has been no electricity, therefore we have relied on alternative sources to operate the generators,” Melhem said. “If they (Israel) allow the entry of fuel, this problem will be solved.”

Until this week, Israel had completely prohibited fuel from going in to Gaza, fearing it could be commandeered by Hamas. But on Wednesday the Israeli government allowed the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees to receive 23,000 litres (6,076 gallons) of fuel, but under the restriction that it be used only for vehicles delivering aid.

Live updates | Gaza loses communications due to lack of fuel. Israel signals forces may move south

A dire fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip has shut down all internet and phone networks. That's according to the main Palestinian provider.

apnews.com

I honestly don't think the international community is going to "persuade" Israel to do anything. If Israel's not heeding the advice of their closest allies, they're not going to bow to international political peer pressure, right or wrong. JMO

 

[Ilovemy3boys]

But it is the removal of Palestinian life that the world is witnessing, now, in actual real terms. But let’s not talk about that.

It’s ok though. They don’t count.

 

[Brightchaser47]

The videos of the IDF troops carrying it into the hospital have been posted in here numerous times. At least one incubator, can be seen in the short clip, one stretcher and many boxes of medical supplies. Surely you didn't miss it?

No, I didn't miss it. It's just that for every post that says the IDF brought something to a hospital, there's another post with hospital administration denying it and begging for supplies. I've read them all, and the contradiction is exhausting. If the IDF has indeed brought supplies to a hospital (and I do believe they have), it would be  sooo refreshing if the hospital would simply acknowledge it. Take issue with it, if you wish, but just acknowledge it already. jmo
ETA: If this has changed, I'll gladly stand corrected.

 

[JennieM]

5h ago

Communications systems in the Gaza Strip are down for a second day, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies amid warnings people could soon face starvation.

Israel has been pushing deeper into Gaza City, and its troops have been searching al-Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital, for traces of a Hamas command centre the military alleges is located under the building, AP reported.

They have displayed images of what they claimed to be a tunnel entrance and weapons found in a truck inside the compound, but do not yet have any evidence of the command centre. Hamas and al-Shifa staff deny such a command centre exists.

The war, now in its sixth week, was triggered by Hamas’s 7 October attack in southern Israel, in which militants killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and captured about 240 men, women and children.

Abeer Etefa, a Middle East regional spokesperson for the United Nations’ World Food Programme, said Gaza was receiving only 10% of its needed food supplies daily, and dehydration and malnutrition was growing with nearly all of the 2.3 million people in the territory needing food.

“People are facing the immediate possibility of starvation,” she said from Cairo.

With few trucks entering Gaza and no fuel to distribute the food, “there is no way to meet the current hunger needs”, she added.

“The existing food systems in Gaza are basically collapsing.”

Israeli forces ‘determined to advance’, says military – as it happened

Daniel Hagari’s comments come amid mounting concerns about Israeli plans to expand military operations where people have sought refuge from fighting

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

4h ago

WHO voices concern over spread of disease in Gaza​

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was very concerned about the spread of disease in Gaza as weeks of Israeli bombardments have caused the population to crowd in shelters with scarce food and clean water.

“We are extremely concerned about the spread of the disease when the winter season arrives,” said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory.

He said more than 70,000 cases of acute respiratory infections and over 44,000 cases of diarrhoea had been recorded in the densely populated enclave, figures significantly higher than expected.

Israeli forces ‘determined to advance’, says military – as it happened

Daniel Hagari’s comments come amid mounting concerns about Israeli plans to expand military operations where people have sought refuge from fighting

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

4h ago
Lisa O'Carroll

The EU’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, has urged the Middle East not to “go back to 20 years ago” with repeated cycles of violence and conflict as he continues his four-day diplomatic push to get a plan under way for enduring peace.

On Thursday, he called on Israel not to be “consumed by rage” in its response, saying he understood the “anguish” “fears” and “pain” of Israelis following the 7 October attacks. Over the weekend he is visiting the West Bank, Bahrain, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi and Jordan with a blueprint for so-called for “day after” plan.

“The important thing today is to bring to the minds of everyone we have to engage in a peace process,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday. “If we don’t stop this cycle of violence it will happen again and now there is an opportunity, a kind of wake up [call] in order to deal with the problem that we have almost forgotten about.

“We believe that peace with the Arab world is enough and it is not enough, peace has to be done with the Palestinians themselves. The first thing to do is to start thinking about how do we manage the situation in Gaza. Once the Gaza war, little by little will decrease, we will have to have a mindset to look for a stable solution. We cannot go back to 20 years ago.”

For too long the EU has delegated responsibility for the Middle East to the US, he said in Brussels this week. “We have been far too absent,” he added.

Borrell’s blueprint centres on a six-point plan with the EU and Arab world leading, alongside the US:

• No reduction in territory size of Gaza
• No long-term security presence by Israel
• No forced displacement of people from Gaza
• A single Palestinian Authority for West Bank and Gaza
• Involvement of the Arab leaders
• Involvement of Europe

Israeli forces ‘determined to advance’, says military – as it happened

Daniel Hagari’s comments come amid mounting concerns about Israeli plans to expand military operations where people have sought refuge from fighting

www.theguardian.com

 

[JennieM]

UN says its work is impossible without phone lines and fuel​

More now from Juliette Touma from UNRWA - the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Speaking to the BBC before Israel said two fuel trucks would be allowed into Gaza per day, she stressed how much a lack of fuel and communications had challenged the UN's work.

Imagine managing a humanitarian operation, one of the largest now happening globally, without telephone, without the mobile phone – it’s impossible." from Juliette Touma UNRWA

Touma said the restoration of communications in Gaza must therefore go “hand in hand” with fuel deliveries. Telecoms companies say mobile phone and internet services are down.

In her interview with Yolande Knell, she issued another warning about the situation in the Palestinian territory. “People will start to simply die because of lack of assistance and lack of medical care and lack of fuel and lack of water – they will simply just die,” she said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67446662

 

[JennieM]

It's a 'living nightmare', says Palestinian doctor​

Although Israeli soldiers recently entered Al-Shifa hospital, this is certainly not the only Gaza medical facility on the front line right now. A doctor evacuated from Al-Ahli hospital has described the situation there as a “living nightmare”.

Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta - who previously worked at Al-Shifa - said Al-Ahli was surrounded by Israeli tanks, and that it had run out of medical supplies, forcing it to stop operating.

“Leaving 500 wounded knowing that there’s nothing left for you to be able to do for them, it’s just the most heart-breaking thing I never had to do,” the British-Palestinian medic told Reuters.

Yesterday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said its medical service teams were“trapped” inside Al-Ahli, and reported explosions and “intense gunfire” nearby.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67446662